Miracle island: geography poetics and poetic geography. Gornitskaya L. I., Larionov M. Ch. The place that doesn’t exist... Islands in Russian literature. Rostov-on-Don: publishing house of SSC RAS, 2013. - 226 p

In a review the basic aspects of the book by L.I. Gornitskaya and M.Ch. Larionova “The place that does not exist: the island in Russian literature” are considered. The reviewer puts great store of the monograph, because of its considerable value in the development of the theory of poetic mythology and in the historical and literary terms.